Hi Sijmen please help me install myide 4.8.0 to the hard drive and to make partitions.If you start with me slowly and tell me exactly what to put in D1: and to boot the atari without pressing option and to tell me what to type etc!!!! I can do it i just need to be taught slowly and i do follow instructions.

I can't get my head around your manuals because it tells me to put mydos in D1 then boot myide well i know that what ever is in D1 will boot first so that confuses me!!!!

Sijmen i'd apreciate it if you could start me from the beginning with mybios 4.0.5 as its menu driven and that would be easier for me.

Thanks Andrew

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I did the trick to unplug the ide cable and load the master disk then mydo and plugged the ide back in and the i copied the DOS files to the drive and it worked

I now need to suss out how to transfer and atr files to the partition 1 so when i see 001 i can click the fire button and it loads because at the moment when i do press fire the hard drive clicks and flashes a light and thats all ?

I can create a directory on the hard drive and get mydos to use that directory.My hard drive is D3:I can use format in dos to format any partition i create.

Hi Sijmen please hold on the setup with mybios 4.8.05

I want to get to learn how to get a hard drive partition working with rev3.1 I just now need to find out how to transfer an atr to the partition.If you can help me there much appreciated

Sijmen i am learning this very easy 3.1 I have made a partition in D2: i have then WRITHD.OBJ then i copied the DOS files and all works.I then made a directory as ANDREW TAYLOR it worksI made a partition as 65335 and in dos i have DOS SYS 0018 DUP SYS 0027 My directory is 0008 and i have 0655 free sectors.I just need to know now how to transfer an atr to the hard drives partition

I can make as many directories as i like now and i can format them all and write to them I am going to try and transfer an atr to 0001

final update! I can format and write DOS/DUP files to any partition i create on the hard drive but i can't get to load anything from it?

If i load MAST31-B then MYIDE-HE i then press SELECT and i still get the 0001 which i can move up or down with the joystick but when pressing fire i hear the hard drive click and flash once and thats all ? I have successfully transferred stuff from the pc using AspeQT and once on the hard drive partition i get back to the 0001 and pressing fire i can't load anything?

Thats the bit i need to do to complete messing about with the myide interface and hard drive before moving on to the MYBIOS 4.8.05

Once i have sussed all this out i will then upgrade to the MYIDE-II cf card from atarimax.

WOOP WOOP !!!!! I have got the original hard drive you did for me Sijmen

The problem was i have to switch the img/load and pressing 6 then enter then enter again it automatically put the start image at 512.

So i booted with MAST31-B then MYIDE-HE and pressing select VOILA up came 0001 i press the fire buttin and the first multi boot menu appears.I check this out loading the first game centipede and VOILA back in business

So i am going to try on the other hard drive now and see if i can transfer from pc to the partition switch the img/load on and see if it works

Hi Sijmen,Thank you very much for your help and sorry for interrupting your holiday! I'll wait until your back home

I'd like to try the MYBIOS 4.8.05 next just to see how it looks and goes

The rev3.1 is boring to me now Lol I have been transferring stuff to the hard drive but some stuff is hit and miss ?

I downloaded some multi boot disks with games on and after transferring to 0009 on the hd I would then try to load it and all i get is a black screen but if i try some other multi boot disk then it works after i have over written on 0009 so the 3.1 is ok to play about with but not good as there is no menu listing 0001 and so on you have to click to see then press reboot holding down the option then select then start to get back to 0001 then change to 0002 and so onSo i think the MYBIOS 4.8.05 will be better as there is a menu system so you can see whats on the disk before loading anything.

I would say, just go for it.Just try and error through it, like you did with 3.1The Myide-drive-LBA2-manager (Windows/PC-tool) is very handy to transfer stuff.viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1318

Just remember to enter the MyIDE-MENU once and exit/safe to update to the 4.8 format!

4.8.5 has the same function as 3.1 but nicer and with menu's.After done SETUP, forget this disk.LOAD will start the BIOS from your harddrive.4.8.5 is self-containing, no extra disks needed, all tools for setting-up etc is in the bios.Like MyIDE-MENU equals FDISK.BAS, IMAGE-MENU, RESET-MENU (shift+control+tab)

Use START for images, the list will be empty names, since 3.1 did not support this.You can fill in the names into the slots, so you see what number is what game.But it could well be, that you can't enter names......, since there is no density information either.So you need to redo some copy work with the > key (SIO-to-HD)

Just for you, a re-compiled DISK version for the older 3.1 MyIDE-hardware.I used the files I have on archive.

Tested it here on a setup with a small 2.0 GB 3.5"HD and it works like a charm.Please run your Atari SELF-TEST and check keyboard, if SELECT, OPTION and START-keys work.This to tackle your problem with starting the MyIDE-MENU from scratch.

MyBIOS 4.8.0A, the unreleased beta with some bugfixes to the 4.8.05 release.Don't ask me what fixes, that is 4 years ago, can't remember any more.....

I would suggest you use another harddrive then the one you have with 3.1 formatted/partitioned.

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Hi Sijmen THANK YOU very much for attaching the link i have extracted to my myide folder on pc.My head has gone scrambled again please tell me step 1 what to do first?

I can load the setup then reboot to load the MYBIOS menu but thats all nothing happens when pressing start/option/select?

You will have to start me from the beginning on this i've got so used to doing everything on the 3.1 now so i am guessing do i still have to load UTIL to fdisk again to set up the hard drive? or do i load the MAST31-B first then forget that and load setup?

Whats the first thing to do? do i still load MAST31-B then load setup?

If i load the setDE it then tells me to remove disk and reload so when putting the loadDE in i press reset and it loads to the MYBIOS-DE menu but i can't do anything when pressing option/select/start ??? AND yes they are working i tested then in the selftest?

if i press the shift key a light lights up on my hard drive in the middle of the menu on screen Its got IDE-PORT IDE-DEVICE MENU SIDEIf press any key the menu reloads and the hard drive is flashing?

Is there something i have to do first before loading the setDE disk ?

Sorry

How do i do this, Just remember to enter the MyIDE-MENU once and exit/safe to update to the 4.8 format! ?

Sijmen i am using a freshley formatted fat32 1 gig hard drive so there is nothing on it so once i get this going i presume i need to set a partition etc once i get in to the setup menu?

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